Karoline Pichler

Caroline Pichler (also: Karoline, born September 7, 1769 in Vienna, † July 9, 1843 ibid ) was an Austrian writer, poet, critic and salonière.

Life

Caroline Pichler wrote novels, short stories, plays and poems. She was the daughter of the privy councilor Francis of Greiner (1732-1798) and Charlotte ( Caroline ) Jerome ( 1740-1816 ), the voice on the Empress Maria Theresa. My brother in law was Anton Pichler (1770-1823), a well-known bookseller in which published several of her books. She became famous mainly through their historical novels.

In addition to her literary activities, she also hosted literary salons, which were at that time as the most important events of its kind in Vienna. Here perverted inter alia Franz Grillparzer, Friedrich von Schlegel, Theodor Körner and Anton von Prokesch -east.

It rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 27). In 1883 (9th district) was named the Pichlergasse for her in Vienna Alsergrund.

Family

She married in 1796 the official Andreas Pichler ( 1764-1837 ). The couple had one daughter, Caroline (* 1797), this married Joseph Edler von Pelzeln. One of her grandchildren was the ornithologist August von Pelzeln, as well as the Schriftstellerinen Marie of Pelzeln ( pseud. Emma Franz ) and Fanny of Pelzeln ( pseud. Henriette Franz ).

Works

  • Idylls, 1803 Digitalisat
  • Ruth, 1805
  • Agathocles, 1808
  • Germanicus: a tragedy in five acts, 1813, digitized
  • Mathilde, libretto for the opera by August Mayer, 1818
  • Woman dignity. By Caroline Pichler, natives of Greiner. First Part / Second Part. Reutlingen: Fleischhauer and Spohn 1820 Part 1, Part 4.
  • Olivier, 1821, digitized
  • The siege of Vienna in 1683, 1824, digitized
  • The Swedes in Prague in 1827, digitized
  • The reconquest of Buda in 1829, digitized
  • Frederick the Quarrelsome, 1831, part 1-2, part 3-4
  • Henrietta of England, 1832
  • Time images, 1840, Volume 1
  • Memoirs of my life, posthumously 1844 ( autobiography in four volumes) Volume 2

The output of Caroline Pichler's Complete Works (1820/1845) consisted of 60 volumes. In 1894 appeared in four volumes compiling Selected stories.

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